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The wars & local soldiers, 1952

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Rearmed Germany "War Threat"

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 4

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—A rearmed Germany might seek to draw the Western world into a war for the recovery of its national unity, says the British Labor Party…

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Aid Plan To Beat War Aims

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON, April 9. A.A.P.—Through mutual assistance, the free countries were preventing conquest and world…

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Brigadier For Anzac Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 April 1952 · page 3

Brigadier J. W. Main would be the main speaker at an Anzac Day service at Mayfield East School on April 24, the…

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Coast Gunners In Anzac March

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 April 1952 · page 2

Former Coast Artillery personnel would march together in the Anzac Day parade in Newcastle, the Officer…

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Soldier Found Bashed At Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 April 1952 · page 1

A soldier, who had been bashed with wine bottles, was found lying in a pool of blood near Maitland Park last…

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Island War Retold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1952 · page 5

FOR Australians the story of the defeat of the Japanese ground forces must always have special interest…

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Dean To Dedicate War Memoral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1952 · page 2

The Dean of Newcastle (Very Rev. W. A. Hardie) will give the address at the dedication of a memorial fence…

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Injured Soldier Improving

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 April 1952 · page 3

The condition of George Daniel Rowlands, 28, of the Royal Australian Regiment, Ingleburn, was reported last…

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American War Hero Kills Himself In Police Chase

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 April 1952 · page 3

CANTON (Ohio), Sun. (A.A.P.)—A war hero killed himself last night after a chase in which he shot at two men, stole three cars and raped and robbed a farm woman. Cornered near East…

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Soldier Remanded On Harm Count

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1952 · page 4

At Maitland Court on Saturday, Francis Morris Pickford, 28, soldier, of R.A.R. Training Battalion, Ingleburn, was…

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Anzac Dawn Service

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 April 1952 · page 2

The Anzac dawn service this year would be one of the most impressive held in Newcastle, the organiser…

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Last Year Of Anzac Cup Golf Contest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1952 · page 6

For the fifth and final year, the Anzac Cup, presented by Dr. J. J. Hollywood for exservicement of World War I.,…

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War Hero Dies As Criminal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, April 14. A.A.P.—Raymond ('Whizzier') White, 35, who wiped out a pocket of 11 Japanese in the…

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Ghostly Welcome Home For English Clergyman

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 2

LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): A black draped ghost that has tripped up and down the stairs of a vicarage at Yatlendon (England) for the past 20 years, appeared again the other day to welcome the vicar and his wife back from a holiday abroad…

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Germ War Protest In Britain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 3

LONDON, April 15. A.A.P. —Nine hundred members at the annual congress of the British Communist Party in…

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"No War" Tactics By Soviet "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 3

WASHINGTON, April 15. —Unless American officials are blinded by wishful thinking, there will be no war this…

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R.S.L. Anzac Dinner

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 16

Mr. Don Cook, social secretary of the Merewether R.S.L., who was on a holiday fishing trip with his father and party…

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Merewether R.S.L. Anzac Dinner

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 7

More than 100 members of the Merewether R.S.L. and friends attended the sub-branch's annual Anzac…

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Around the Schools Anzac Day Services On April 24

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 6

Schools will commemorate Anzac Day at 11 a.m. on April 24. Anzac Day—April 25—is a holiday for schools…

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Germ War in Japan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 9

TOKYO, April 16. A.A.P.— Reuter.—Japanese secret agents are investigating the possibility that Communists…

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